as in to shake
to make a series of small irregular or violent movements
the engine began to judder alarmingly just a few miles outside of Brighton
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Recent Examples of judder
Well, after years of stuttering, pausing, juddering, waiting for the goalkeeper to dive and then rolling spot kicks meekly into the net, Nick Woltemade may have just reversed the trend.
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Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.
—Book Marks
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
We’re inundated with remakes—recognizable storylines and premises that repeat the familiar rather than juddering-ly rearrange our worldview.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
The cars judder past the fallow fields of late November as day gradually brightens the gray, polluted sky.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
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Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.
—Book Marks
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
We’re inundated with remakes—recognizable storylines and premises that repeat the familiar rather than juddering-ly rearrange our worldview.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
The cars judder past the fallow fields of late November as day gradually brightens the gray, polluted sky.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for judder
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Players were visibly shaken, as were many in the stands, as medical staff from both teams and EMS placed him on a stretcher and carted him off the field.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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Rinse under cold water 1 minute, shaking to ensure a thorough rinse.—
Midwest Living,
Midwest Living,
15 May 2026
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The way the stadium shuddered with noise.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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The world itself is shuddering on some of these economic blows.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 May 2026
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During their first night together, just for an instant, Nikki appears to glitch, jerking back mid-kiss and looking at him with blind panic instead of undying affection.—
Alex Barasch,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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John jerked Maggie back by the elbow and stopped her from stepping into the street.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 May 2026
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Days after the shooting stunned Shreveport, a whirlwind of police lights, camera crews and grieving relatives swarmed the neighborhood where the killings unfolded, the streets vibrating with sirens, the air shrouded in questions and disbelief.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
10 May 2026
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Then the controllers tried vibrating the drill to knock the rock loose and had no luck.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
7 May 2026
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“Judder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/judder. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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